Sometimes experiments give clear answers, even when they’re not the answers we want. In this case, filming the Sun was meant ...

NASA has shared a new orbital image of the Curiosity Mars rover making tracks across the Red Planet to uncover secrets kept for billions of years. The image was taken from its Mars Reconnaissance ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has never been camera shy, having been seen in selfies and images taken from space. But on Feb. 28—the 4,466th Martian day, or sol, of the mission—Curiosity was captured in ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Liquid or gas flowed through cracks penetrating underground rock on ancient Mars, according to a report based on some of the first observations by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Two Russian cosmonauts are back inside the International Space Station after conducting a spacewalk to install a semiconductor materials experiment, as well as retrieve and jettison a no-longer-needed ...

AMES, Iowa — Optical scientist Peter Smith, creator of the Mars Pathfinder Imager — the first camera to return photos of Mars’ surface, will speak at Iowa State University on Thursday, Feb. 10. “The ...

NASA's sharp-eyed Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) just notched a big milestone. MRO's HiRISE ("High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment") camera has now snapped 100,000 photos of the surface of ...

A University of Arizona-led team using a camera orbiting Mars has captured the closest images yet of an interstellar comet so rare that it has sparked wild speculation about its alien origins. The ...

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The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera is the size of a small car—and the biggest digital camera ever built for astronomy. By Andrew Paul Published Apr 3, 2024 9:00 AM EDT Get the Popular ...